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What is your breaking point as a fan?

View Poll Results: How much longer before you start questioning you allegiance to the Oilers

Still, it's too much to ask for the idiots in management to put a competitive team on the ice I suppose.

Haha, I wasn't sure if you were being serious or not.

I'm not sure if I have a breaking point as a fan. But in 09/10, 10/11, 11/12, and 12/13, we weren't talking about missing the playoffs this early on. Now we basically know in November that we're not going to make it, so this is about as low as I've ever felt as a hockey fan.

I still remember being 9 years old and crying when the Oilers lost Game 5 to the Avalanche in '97. It was such a letdown after the thrill that was the Dallas series. What I wouldn't give to have those days back.

I have stopped believing in many of the players at this point. I understand blaming coaches, GMs and the culture but the guys on the Oilers are supposed to be pros. Even if they aren't given the best of all things they are capable of winning more and being in games.

I haven't even seen them trying for quite a while and for that reason I have lost an inner interest in the Oilers. I will always be a fan and I await actually feeling some kind of passion for the team as a lifelong Oilers fan.

Right now if someone that isn't an Oilers fan were to talk about the Oilers I would likely go on and make more insults about the team than any Flames or Canucks fan can be capable of doing.

I long to see a less talented team like we had in the 90s that actually cared about the game and wanted to win.

People look at a couple holes on the team and say that is why we can't win. Look back at gaping holes we had many times in the past. We had worse defence in the past and we still won, we had unknown goalies that were definately no better any maybe worse than Dubnyk and we could win more than we did now. The difference was the players played hard.

I used to be proud that the Oilers would play any game, especially the playoffs to win. They didn't have to be better on paper as they could knock off any team on a given night.

I have stopped believing in many of the players at this point. I understand blaming coaches, GMs and the culture but the guys on the Oilers are supposed to be pros. Even if they aren't given the best of all things they are capable of winning more and being in games.

I haven't even seen them trying for quite a while and for that reason I have lost an inner interest in the Oilers. I will always be a fan and I await actually feeling some kind of passion for the team as a lifelong Oilers fan.

Right now if someone that isn't an Oilers fan were to talk about the Oilers I would likely go on and make more insults about the team than any Flames or Canucks fan can be capable of doing.

I long to see a less talented team like we had in the 90s that actually cared about the game and wanted to win.

People look at a couple holes on the team and say that is why we can't win. Look back at gaping holes we had many times in the past. We had worse defence in the past and we still won, we had unknown goalies that were definately no better any maybe worse than Dubnyk and we could win more than we did now. The difference was the players played hard.

I used to be proud that the Oilers would play any game, especially the playoffs to win. They didn't have to be better on paper as they could knock off any team on a given night.

No kidding. In 2002 we had a hockey club with a top line comprised of Smyth-Anson Carter - Cleary and we made the second round of the playoffs.

I broke this summer. When it became clear how absolutely out of touch Lowe was during the MacT hiring presser (to say nothing of the fact that the org hired another rookie GM, who hired a rookie coach), I lost all hope.

His reaction to being criticized—not even the 6 rings thing, but the astonished look on his face when a reporter implied that he might somehow be responsible for any lack of success—was all the confirmation I needed to know that from the top on down there is absolutely no real institutional desire to win.

You just summed up nearly a decade of futility perfectly in two paragraphs. Well ****ing said.

Considering what we just witnessed with Smid and the signing of Bryzgov, what kind of trade would it take for you to retire as a fan of the oilers? The organization has been passively managing this team and now that they feel the heat they decide to frantically make changes. I have no faith in management because it's quite evident they lack logic and executing diligently. (Ex. Signing bryzgalov now rather than the off season)

Considering what we just witnessed with Smid and the signing of Bryzgov, what kind of trade would it take for you to retire as a fan of the oilers? The organization has been passively managing this team and now that they feel the heat they decide to frantically make changes. I have no faith in management because it's quite evident they lack logic and executing diligently. (Ex. Signing bryzgalov now rather than the off season)